Datasheet | M4250 series AV Line Managed Switches Switching Engineered for AV over IP The NETGEAR M4250 Switch Series generally use 1Gbps or 10Gbps per Q-SYS and AES67 profiles are available, introduces the AV Line, developed and stream and the AV Line of M4250 targets as well as an AVB profile requiring an engineered for audio/video professionals the widespread 1Gbps codecs. AVB license sold separately. For video with dedicated service and support. PoE+, Ultra90 PoE++ and rear-facing ports the M4250 offers profiles for NVX, SVSI, M4250 has been built from the ground ensure a clean integration in AV racks. Q-SYS, NDI, Dante etc. as well as audio/ up for the growing AV over IP market, M4250 switches come pre-configured for video/control mixed profiles. When combining years of networking expertise standard audio and video signals. When multiple switches, NETGEAR IGMP Plus™ in AV with M4300 and M4500 series with requirements are more specific, an AV brings automation for you to just connect best practices from leading experts in user interface offers customization with them together, or with M4300 and M4500 the professional AV market. AV codecs port-based profiles. For audio Dante, switches. Highlights Extended AV features • Built-in IT web GUI, console, telnet • Fully featured L2/L3/L4 platform for • Dedicated AV web-based GUI and SSH consistent with other midsize Enterprise campus networks, interface for more specific AV NETGEAR M4300 and M4500 series IoT and IPTV installations • Feature set includes static, RIP and PIM Industry standard management • Color-based AV profiles can be routing, DHCP Server and PTPv2 • Industry standard command line applied to the different ports Audio Video Bridging (AVB) services interface (CLI), main NETGEAR IT web interface (GUI), SNMP, sFlow and RSPAN • Dante, Q-SYS, AES67 and AVB audio • AVB is one of the many features profiles designed into the M4250 product line • Single-pane-of-glass NMS300 management platform with centralized • AVB requires a license (sold separately) • AVB is an industry standard for firmware updates and mass- transporting content over a network • NVX, SVSI, Q-SYS, NDI and Dante configuration support video profiles • AVB is used most often when very Industry leading warranty low latency is required such as in live • Audio / video / control mixed profiles • NETGEAR M4250 series is covered performances when lip sync is critical • Automatic switch interconnect with under NETGEAR ProSAFE Limited NETGEAR IGMP PlusTM • All of the AV Line M4250 switches can Lifetime Hardware Warranty* be optionally licensed for AVB support • Common Layer 2 and Layer 3 • 90 days of Technical Support via phone switching engine across all M4250 Other IT use cases and email, Lifetime Technical Support models • Standard or recessed mounting with all through online chat and Lifetime Next Business Day hardware replacement ports in the back, or all ports in the front PAGE 1 of 44 Datasheet | M4250 series AV Line Managed Switches Hardware-at-a-Glance REAR (REVERSIBLE)* LEDs MANAGEMENT 100/1000/2.5G 1000/10G Model Switching 10/100/1000 1000BASE-X Status Out-of-band Model Form-Factor BASE-T RJ45 BASE-X PSU Name Fabric BASE-T RJ45 ports Number ports SFP ports SFP+ ports Information Console 8 ports PoE+ (125W) 1U rack mount 2 ports SFP Ethernet: M4250-10G2F-PoE+ 24 Gbps 2 additional ports - - 1G Out-of- GSM4212P 440 x 43.2 x 200mm 1G 10M, 100M, 1G Available band (Rear) 8 ports PoE+ (240W) Fixed both in front Console: 1U rack mount 2 ports SFP+ and in the RJ45 RS232 M4250-10G2XF-PoE+ 60 Gbps 2 additional ports - - (C14 GSM4212PX rear: 440 x 43.2 x 200mm 1G, 10G connector) (Rear) 10M, 100M, 1G Console: 8 ports PoE++** (720W) Power LED USB-C 1U rack mount 60 Gbps 2 ports SFP+ Power (Rear) M4250-10G2XF-PoE++ 2 additional ports - - switch PoE Max LED GSM4212UX 440 x 43.2 x 257mm 1G, 10G Storage: 10M, 100M, 1G (PoE models) (On/Off) USB-A 1U rack mount 12 ports 2 ports SFP+ Fan LED (Front) M4250-12M2XF 100 Gbps - - MSM4214X 440 x 43.2 x 100mm 100M, 1G, 2.5G 1G, 10G Port LEDs LED Ext: 1U rack mount 320 Gbps 16 ports SFP+ USB-C M4250-16XF - - (Front) XSM4216F 440 x 43.2 x 200mm 1G, 10G * Reversed mounting is possible when ports are desired on the front of the rack by using the standard rackmout ears, or the included alternate rackmount ears to mount the switch recessed by 2-Inches to allow for the cabling. ** Ultra90 PoE++ 802.3bt is compatible with 802.3af PoE (15.4W), 802.3at PoE++ (30W) and 802.3bt (60W, 75W and 90W). Acoustic-at-a-Glance COOL MODE Setting at 25ºC FAN OFF MODE Setting / maximum loading* QUIET MODE Setting at 25ºC ambient** ambient** PoE Case Case Model PoE Power Fan Fan Model Fanless State Ambient Sensor Power Conditions Sensor Temp Acoustic Temp Acoustic Name Load Duty Duty Number Load (Top) (Top) All ports 0dBA / 37.1ºC M4250-10G2F-PoE+ 25ºC <= 42ºC 80W can be 125W 25 <= 36ºC 35.9ºC 27.38dBA 100 27.2ºC 55dBA GSM4212P Case Temp used All ports 0dBA / 38.4ºC M4250-10G2XF-PoE+ 25ºC <= 44ºC 90W can be 240W 25 <= 37ºC 40.6ºC 27.4dBA 100 30.9ºC 56dBA GSM4212PX Case Temp used All ports 90W 25 <= 49ºC 41.1ºC 34.57dBA 0dBA / 42.3ºC M4250-10G2XF-PoE++ 25ºC <= 67ºC 45W can be 90-180W 30 <= 49ºC 40.8ºC 40dBA 100 41.8ºC 60dBA GSM4212UX Case Temp used 180W-720W 40 <= 49ºC 52.1ºC 47.19dBA 8 ports 0dBA / 56ºC M4250-12M2XF 25ºC <= 64ºC - 2.5G - 25 <= 58ºC 53.5ºC 28.5dBA 100 33.2ºC 55dBA MSM4214X Case Temp (no SFP+) 0dBA / 36.2ºC 8 ports M4250-16XF 25ºC <= 78ºC - - 25 <= 67ºC 41.6ºC 27.44dBA 100 30.3ºC 57dBA XSM4216F Case Temp SFP+ * Software-controlled fan adjustments enable the fans to be turned off when ambient temperature and PoE loads are appropriate for a totally fanless operation. ** dBA values are SPL (Sound Pressure Level) values, testing following the ISO-7779 standard. Bystander Mode. Chamber Temp 25ºC during testing. Full, 100%, Data and PoE loaded. Worst case. PAGE 2 of 44 Datasheet | M4250 series AV Line Managed Switches Software-at-a-Glance LITE LAYER 3 PACKAGE IPv4 / IPv6 Spanning IPv4 / IPv6 IPv4 / IPv6 Trunking IPv4 / IPv6 IPv4 / IPv6 IPv4 / IPv6 Model AV ACL and Tree Model Management Multicast Policing and VLANs Port Authentication Static Dynamic Name Dedicated UI QoS, Number Filtering Convergence Green Channel Security Routing Routing DiffServ Ethernet AV web-based GUI available at Auto-VoIP [Switch IP NETGEAR Address]:8080 IGMPTM Plus Policy-based Port, routing (PBR) Static, Subnet, Out-of-band for automated Static LAG, STP, MTP, Dynamic, VLAN Designed for IGMP between or Dynamic RSTP routing AV installers switches Voice, Successive IT Web GUI Ingress/ LLDP-MED LACP MAC Tiering (main) egress PV(R)STP (DOT1X; MAB; Multicast IPv4: RIP AV-related IGMPv3 (LACP IEEE 1588 Captive Portal) static routes controls MLDv2 GVRP/ HTTPs 1 Kbps PTPv2 automati- M4250 Snooping, BPDU/STRG GMRP cally reverts IPv4/IPv6: All CLI; Telnet; SSH shaping 1-Step series Proxy ASM to and from DHCP DHCPv4 models Audio over IP End-to-End Root Guard PIM-SM Time-based & SSM Static LAG) Snooping Server profiles Double PIM-DM Transparent Dynamic ARP SNMP, MIBs VLAN Clock EEE 802.3az Inspection SSM RSPAN Single Rate IGMPv1,v2 mode Seven (7) DHCP Relay AVB profile* (EEE is IP Source Policing Querier L2/L3/L4 disabled by Guard (compatible v3) AVB*: hashing Radius Users, default) Private Stateful Video over IP 802.1AS, algorithms TACACS+ VLANs DHCPv6 profiles 802.1Qav, Control Packet Server Flooding 802.1Qat MSRP, 802.1ak MMRP, Mixed Audio and 802.1ak MVRP Video profiles * Requires AVB license, sold separately. All other software features are available, license-free. Performance-at-a-Glance TABLE SIZE Multicast IP Routing/ IGMP Model MAC Throughput Application Packet Multicast Jumbo Model Switching Latency CPU Group VLANs DHCP sFlow Name 64-byte Route Scaling Buffer Routing Frames Number ARP/NDP Capacity member- Entries ship 16K MAC Static: 24 Gbps 17.86 M4250-10G2F-PoE+ 4K ARP/ 894v4/126v6 16Mb <2.27µs 1G GSM4212P Line-Rate Mpps NDP RIP: 32v4 16K MAC Static: 60 Gbps 44.64 <2.14µs 1G M4250-10G2XF-PoE+ 4K ARP/ 894v4/126v6 16Mb GSM4212PX Line-Rate Mpps <0.84µs 10G DHCP NDP RIP: 32v4 ARM A9 Server: 1.25Ghz 2K leases 16 samplers 16K MAC Static: 512 IPv4 2GB Up to 2K IPv4 4K 60 Gbps 44.64 <1.84µs 1G 16 pollers M4250-10G2XF-PoE++ 4K ARP/ 894v4/126v6 16Mb 128 IPv6 RAM 12K 2K IPv6 VLANs IPv4: 256 GSM4212UX Line-Rate Mpps <0.81µs 10G 8 receivers NDP RIP: 32v4 256MB pools Flash IPv6: 16 pools 16K MAC Static: <2.84.µs 1G 100 Gbps 74.40 M4250-12M2XF 4K ARP/ 894v4/126v6 16Mb <6.02µs 2.5G MSM4214X Line-Rate Mpps NDP RIP: 32v4 <0.81µs 10G 16K MAC Static: 320 Gbps 238.08 <1.30µs 1G M4250-16XF 4K ARP/ 894v4/126v6 16Mb XSM4216F Line-Rate Mpps <0.86µs 10G NDP RIP: 32v4 PAGE 3 of 44 Datasheet | M4250 series AV Line Managed Switches Product Brief The NETGEAR AV Line M4250 series was designed with input from AV Professionals. The result is a line of switches built from the ground up to support 1Gb audio and video over IP with customized hardware and software along with dedicated service and support. NETGEAR M4250 series key features: • Software-controlled fan adjustments • For video, the M4250 offers profiles for • Ranges from 8 to 16 ports with a variety enable the fans to be turned off when NVX, SVSI, Q-SYS, NDI, Kramer KDS, of PoE+ and Ultra90 PoE++ options for ambient temperature and PoE loads are Aurora Multimedia, ZeeVee, Atlona, 15.4W, 30W, 60W, 75W and 90W appropriate for a totally fanless operation Dante and SDVoE AVoIP endpoints • Threaded holes on the bottom (4xM5 • Other AV CODECs and manufactures • Uplink options include 1G for audio